Fallen Quotes - Page 20

• Clary," he whispered. There was a thump, and she realized he had fallen to his kees by the side of her bed. She didn't move, but her body tightened. His voice was a whisper. "Clary, it's me. It's me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Voice, Bed

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• I had fallen too far. I was in love with Rush Finlay.

  Abbi Glines

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Fallen Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea. Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of tea and a biscuit. Your entire family has been eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex that has travelled through a space/time portal? Nice cup of tea and a piece of cake. Possibly a savoury option would be welcome here too, for example a Scotch egg or a sausage roll.

  David Walliams

  Nice, Cake, Eggs

  "Mr. Stink". Book by David Walliams, www.mirror.co.uk. 2009.

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• I see a few hands stretching out to me at the edge of the net, so I grabbed the first one I could reach and pull myself across. I roll off, and would have fallen face-first onto a wood floor if he had not caught me. "He" is the young man attached to the hand I grabbed. He has a spare upper lip and a full lower lip. His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color.

  Veronica Roth

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

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• Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Mother, Brother, Twelve

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  Ellen Kushner

  Morning, Cutting, Winter

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• The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

  Robert Jordan

  Cried, Seats

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.810, Macmillan

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• Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life’s buried here, Heap earth upon it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Heart, White

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.5, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Darkness, Clue, Felt

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.383, 谷月社

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• Enemy giants moved towards the breech, and Tyson picked up the fallen warrior’s club. He yelled something to his fellow blacksmiths – probably ‘FOR POSEIDON!’ – but with his mouth full of peanut butter it sounded like, ‘PUH PTEH BUN.’ His brethren all grabbed hammers and chisels, yelled, ‘PEANUT BUTTER!’ and charged behind Tyson into battle.

  Rick Riordan

  Warrior, Enemy, Battle

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• As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Cry, Hell, Imagine

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• Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said that they're the offspring of demons and angels, which always seemed more likely to me. Good and evil, mixing together. Faeries are as beautiful as angels are supposed to be, but they have a lot of mischief and cruelty in them. And you'll notice most of them avoid midday sunlight—" "For the devil has no power," said Dorothea softly, as if she were reciting an old rhyme, "except in the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Angel, Pride

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fellowship Of The Ring

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• You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Bird, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• The dreamer in her Had fallen in love with me and she did not know it. That moment the dreamer in me Fell in love with her and I knew it

  Ted Hughes

  Dreamer, Moments, That Moment

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.146, Faber & Faber

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• I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.

  Dan Millman

  Heart, Mind, Peaceful Warrior

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.287, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When are we going to realize that hating other women - no matter how much money they have or how far they've fallen - is just as bad for ourselves as it is for anyone else?

  Jessica Valenti

  Hate, Matter, Realizing

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “He's a Stud, She's a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know”, p.113, Seal Press

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• In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

  Dean Koontz

  Night, Light, Giving

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• Is it just a coincidence that as the portion of our income spent on food has declined, spending on health care has soared? In 1960 Americans spent 17.5 percent of their income on food and 5.2 percent of national income on health care. Since then, those numbers have flipped: Spending on food has fallen to 9.9 percent, while spending on heath care has climbed to 16 percent of national income. I have to think that by spending a little more on healthier food we could reduce the amount we have to spend on heath care.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Numbers, Income

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating”, p.111, Penguin UK

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• I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost a number of friends in the last few years. I don't mean that I've fallen out with them, in any dramatic way. We've just decided not to stay in touch. And that's what it's been: a decision, a conscious decision, because it's not difficult to stay in touch with people nowadays, there are so many different ways of doing it. But as you get older, I think that some friendships start to feel increasingly redundant. You just find yourself asking, "What's the point?" And then you stop.

  Jonathan Coe

  Mean, Thinking, Years

  Jonathan Coe (2011). “The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim”, p.11, Vintage

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• Tessa had lain down beside him and slid her arm beneath his head, and put her head on his chest,listening to the ever-weakening beat of his heart. And in the shadows they'd whispered, reminding each other of the stories only they knew. Of the girl who had hit over the head with a water jug the boy who had come to rescue her, and how he had fallen in love with her in that instant. Of a ballroom and a balcony and the moon sailing like a ship untethered through the sky. Of the flutter of the wings of the clockwork Angel. Of holy water and blood.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Princess, Heart

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

  Georgette Heyer

  Needs, Done, Littles

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• She had fallen asleep with her head on his arm, the clockwork angel, still around her throat, resting against his shoulder just to the left of his collarbone. As she moved away, the clockwork angel slipped free and she saw to her surprise that where it had lain against his skin it had left a mark behind, no bigger than a shilling, in the shape of a pale white star.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Angel, White

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1311, Simon and Schuster

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• On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Night, Romance, Brave

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1287, Delphi Classics

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• I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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